los angeles CALIFORNIA

USC School of Architecture’s Grad Open House, a chance to learn about the school’s programs, connect with faculty and current students, and tour the school’s facilities.

RSVP: Laarni Cutidioc at archgrad@usc.edu or 213.821.2168

USC Grad Open House
Monday, 10/22
5.00 pm / Watt Hall, Suite 204
USC, School of Architecture
Los Angeles, California 90089

stuttgart GERMANY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

SIFT / adam FURE: Veer is a multimedia installation that transforms space, sound, and light into variable dimensions of an experiential field. A base of polyester batting wraps a branching steel structure creating a soft, interior sleeve comprised of tunnel-like folds. Participants bend and push through saturated matter, pulling sound and light from sensors embedded in the material walls. In Veer, space provokes movement, movement provokes sound, and engaged participants instigate an emergent perceptual form.

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vienna AUSTRIA

Excessive III
Postgraduate Master Thesis, Die Angewandte
University of Applied Arts Vienna
critics: hernan DIAZ ALONSO, steven MA (assistant professor), jose CARLOS (TA)

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

handan YALKI: This project represents my thesis for the “Excessive” postgraduate program at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, 2012. The aim was to design a new train station for Vienna by reinterpreting the existing Westbahnhof station.

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

London and Berlin-based architect David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates speaks on “Works”—that is, projects ranging from the ephemeral to the institutional (“Genesis,” Design Miami; Moscow School of Management, Skolkovo), and from the contemporary to the historic (Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington DC).

David Adjaye, “Works”
Friday, 10/19
6.00 pm / A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104)
Art + Architecture Building
A. Alfred Taubman College of A+UP
University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

cambridge MASSACHUSETTS

Liminal Objects initiates a conference series about design that aims to identify pressing issues within the field by exploring the designed object’s role in diverse spatial practices. Through carefully crafted discussions between designers, critics, curators and business leaders, the conference will approach design from differing points of view, studying the production of design, design in practice, and ways that institutions shape design through exhibitions and commissions. The discussion will culminate in a round table with GSD faculty and invited guests.

“Liminal Objects”
Friday, 10/19
3.00-8.00 pm / Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall
Harvard GSD
48 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

USC Wins Prestigious NASA Research Award for the Moon and Mars — As NASA’s Curiosity rover continues its exploration of Mars, USC professors have won a highly prestigious NASA research award to develop new robotic construction technologies for building structures on the Moon and Mars. Professors Behrokh Khoshnevis (Engineering), Anders Carlson (Architecture), Neil Leach (Architecture) and Madhu Thangavelu (Astronautics) have been awarded a Phase 2 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) research award for a project titled “ISRU Based Robotic Construction Technologies for Lunar and Martian Infrastructure.”

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beijing; london; new delhi

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Orproject: Ban is the latest pavilion by architects Orproject which has been constructed for the Beijing Design Week 2012. The Chinese title refers to floral petals, and similar to the way that the shape of a flower is created by its bent petals, Ban is constructed from bent polymer sheets which form a self-supporting structure and create shapes and volume from a multitude of leaves.

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paris FRANCE

Paris, France—The Peugeot ONYX Concept: Utilizing Bold “Raw” Materials for Efficiency.

Sculpted using materials processed as little as possible, this supercar has been created by enthusiasts who have drawn their inspiration from the world of competition. With its V8 engine in a central rear position, the Onyx propels its admirers into a world of high performance, controlled in all circumstances thanks to intuitive instruments and controls. In addition to its stunning aesthetics, it explores new ‘raw’ materials, to take efficiency to another level.

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new york NEW YORK

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

bika REBEK: STIP is a collaboratively developed installation during the summer 2012 in New York City. The over five meters tall structure is made out of ropes and pipe insulation. Over the summer several events were held where Stip was slowly growing, becoming denser and more compressed over time. A simple framework of tensioned ropes between floor and second level was the point of departure. Participants were given no instructions, they could play and experiment with about two hundred pipes and cable binders available at the events.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

AADRL, Architectural Association
critics: alisa ANDRASEK & jose SANCHEZ

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Blue (josé CADILHE, julia ALMEIDA, michail DESYLLAS, & salih TOPAL): This research is based on a conceptual approach toward synthetic ecologies—systems created to develop symbiotic relations with the environment. We view nature not as a given state or a pure and finished system, but as a complex organism that is continuously evolving and adapting to different conditions, which is contrary to the conservative and romantic notion that defines nature as a balanced order of self-reproduction in stasis.

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